On Feb 13, 5:43 pm, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 5:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Isn't the finite state machine "regular expression 'object'" really > > large? > > There's no finite state machine involved here, since this isn't a > regular expression in the strictest sense of the term---it doesn't > translate to a finite state machine, since backreferences are > involved. > > Mark
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